A WORLD- RENOWNED PHYSICIST SAYS HE'S GOT A PLAN TO PROTECT OKLAHOMA -- AND THE REST OF TORNADO ALLEY. HIS PLAN? BUILD WALLS ONE-THOUSAND FEET HIGH, AND 150-FEET WIDE. HE THINKS THEY WOULD KEEP TORNADOES OUT. BUT METEOROLOGISTS SAY THAT'S CRAZY. KOCO'S PATTI MOON HAS THE GREAT WALL PLAN. CLIP 100:35: A physicist from Temple University has proposed that we could build sections of walls 300 meters high and 50 meters across that would supposedly stop tornadoes. THIS IS THE MAN BEHIND THAT IDEA...RONGJIA TAO...A PROFESSOR AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY IN PHILADELPHIA. CLIP 100:45: He's basing this off of looking at China and seeing east-west mountain ranges in China that are about that high that he says protects China from tornadoes. HOWARD BROOKS WITH THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LAB SAYS THERE ARE TWO BIG FLAWS IN HIS ARGUMENT. ONE. TORNADOES HAVE TOUCHED DOWN IN CHINA AND TWO. CLIP 100:58: There are already mountains that high in the central part of the United States like the Witchitas and the Ozarks and all that that don't seem to do a very good job of stopping anything with tornadoes anyway. 01:06 Stand-Up: Just to give you some perspective, this would be a massive massive structure. The Devon Tower is about 844 feet tall, so this wall would be 156 feet taller than the Devon Tower. Another way to compare is the Chase Tower. This is 500 feet tall, so we're talking two Chase Towers stacked on top of each other. CLIP 103:23: It would do all kinds of really weird things to what lives around it and if, heaven forbid, one of the them ever fell, toppling over a 300 meter-high wall probably wouldn't be very good for any structure that was in the vicinity. BROOKS THINKS THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT TAO IS A PHYSICIST... NOT A METEOROLOGIST. CLIP 104:21: You shouldn't talk about something you don't know anything about! PATTI MOON KOCO 5 NEWS. THE COST TO BUILD THAT WALL WOULD BE 60-BILLION DOLLARS PER 100-MILES.. AND, WE DID REACH OUT TO THAT PROFESSOR, BUT HE'S NOT TALKING WHILE HIS PAPER IS